Reading instructions thoroughly before stitching

How many times as a kid were you told to make sure you read and understand the instructions?  How many times have you told kids to do this?  In the stitching realm, not reading the instructions thoroughly can lead to frogging... and more frogging.....  and, as a result, I've been a busy frogger. 

This is a Lorri Birningham scissor case that matches a scissor fob that I stitched years ago that you can see by clicking  here. 

So, going back to my title about reading instructions.  I tend to skim the instructions.  This particular pattern had a large version spread over two pages, and a smaller version on one page. The large version didn't clearly state that the bottom row was the "overlap" row going on to the next page, but had I read and  looked at the smaller full page pattern, I would have clearly seen that there are no duplicate rows like you can see I stitched.  So, now I will be reverse stitching the bottom two rows.   I've noticed that this has been happening to me a lot lately and if I just took the extra few minutes to read go over the instructions thoroughly it would be avoided.   

Anyways, enough of that....   Aside from stitching, I had a wonderful day away yesterday.  I decided to go to Moncton to visit my sister and my nephew.  And since I was in Moncton, I visited my LNS.  My little nephew was such a good boy while we were there.  He is 9 years old and he looked at the patterns with us, browsed through the accessories, looked at all the flosses. We had lots of fun. 

This is what I came home with:

This is the Bell Pull hardware for Heirloom Christmas that I picked up.  It's a bit wide, but these matched the best and I think I can make it work. 

The instructional Victoria Sampler Bell Pull leaflet along with the threadpack.  Since I've never made a Bell Pull before, I plan on making this up first and then trying the finish on Heirloom Christmas. 

Lynn at Kearnel's Korner was talking about Canada themed cross stitch patterns since Canada Day is going to be soon, which made me look to see what I have on hand.  There were only two freebie patterns in my stash.  So, when I saw this Hinzeit, I just had to get it.

  

Dragon Dreams Dust Bunnies has been on my wishlist for awhile.  I think they are absolutely adorable! I've looked at it and put it back numerous times, but this time around it finally came home with me, along with the Fuzzy Stuff needed to stitch it. 

And finally, the little yellow envelope holds seven little silver stars for a JBW design that was stitched around last Christmas. 

Before I left for home, my sister was showing some of the stuff she had in her stash. 

These were two unfinished ornaments that she had sitting there for years just waiting to be finished off.  Since she doesn't sew, I offered to bring them home and finish them for her, but warned her that I couldn't guarantee when they would get done.  I haven't sat down to do any finish-finishing since before Christmas!  Maybe these little ornaments will get my butt in gear. 

I hope everyone is experiencing the beautiful weather that we have here today.  It's the first sunny day in quite awhile and I'm going to go out to enjoy it! 

Have a great day!

Karen